I live in central Alberta and we have had a bad couple of winters but I still believe that Bearpaw outfitters here in AB are killing the biggest mule deer these days. If I remember right they killed 30 bucks in 05 and 9 of them went over 200". Another great outfit up here is Mike Ukrainetz outfitting. I hunted the eastern plains of Colorado in 2003 and the quality of deer was significantly lower than here in AB. That is subject to a lot of variables of course. Hope this helps.
and those two are charging $8000-$8500 for their hunts (they may be well worth it), which is on par with Sonora. The way I see it, Alberta may well produce more 180" bucks every year, but for a chance at the true top end stuff (200+"), I'd head to Sonora.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
